I've read a lot lately about the honesty of bloggers, about how moms online tell it like it is, don't candy-coat the messy stuff and hide it behind a veneer of perfection and try to maintain that everything is great, just great.

Rather than trying to gloss over or candy-coat, he acknowledged the fact that all sides have some legitimate complaints, and all sides have tried to make some illegitimate hay out of the history of race relations in America.

The actor/director said of his new film, "We pushed the boundaries further than they have ever been pushed in an area of brutality and violence because we want to show the horrors of war and not candy-coat the real nightmare that the people are faced with there."